INDIANAPOLIS — Greg Biffle talked to other teams about driving for them in 2015 but decided to stay at Roush Fenway Racing, where he has spent his entire 12-year career.

Biffle, who has struggled this season, doesn’t have a sponsor signed for next year, so just how long this contract runs is still to be determined. But he’ll be there at least through 2016, and give the organization a veteran 44-year-old driver to go along with 26-year-old Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and 23-year-old Trevor Bayne.

With the departure of Carl Edwards, Biffle’s contract extension should help stabilize an organization in a bit of flux. Biffle is sticking with the organization where he has won truck and Nationwide Series championships as well as 19 Cup races. But he also is winless this year and 17th in the standings, three spots and nine points behind the current Chase for the Sprint Cup cutoff for winless drivers.

“I had other options but I felt like I spent a lot of time there and we’ve always won races and I feel like we can win races again,” Biffle said. “The first half of the season has not been what we wanted. It’s no mystery.

“I don’t think that’s a reason to jump ship and say I’m leaving because we haven’t won a race and we’re not performing the way we should.”

Edwards, with two wins, is in the Chase and says he is focused on winning a championship this year while everyone knows he will be leaving at the end of the season. Stenhouse, in his second Cup season, is trying to find his footing at 27th in the standings. Bayne, the 2011 Daytona 500 winner, is sixth in the Nationwide standings.

“Certainly the focus of our leadership is going to be with Greg Biffle and the things that he does with the racecar and the leadership he provides for the engineering initiatives we take,” team co-owner Jack Roush said. “We had that split with Carl and Greg together this year, so that will be a little different next year.

“But Ricky is ready to step up. … We’re not going to be in a bad place next year, it’s just going to be a little different.”

Roush isn’t looking at Edwards’ departure as a reflection of the team’s struggles. He noted that Tony Stewart left Joe Gibbs Racing and Kevin Harvick left Richard Childress Racing for other teams and found success.

“(It) is just a reality of the times that we’re in with the importance that everybody sees of really optimizing their productive time as a driver,” Roush said.

Bayne is fully sponsored by AdvoCare for next season. Stenhouse will have former Edwards sponsor Fastenal as his main sponsor. Roush Fenway is still determining other sponsors for Stenhouse as well as funding for Biffle. Among the companies it is talking to is 3M, which has been aligned with Biffle for several years.

Nationwide rookies Chris Buescher (seventh in the standings) and Ryan Reed (10th) also will return next year.

“(Our outlook) doesn’t look different than when Mark Martin stepped away and we were left with Greg and Carl to go forward,” Roush said. “We’ve been in this business for 27 years counting and we have made it our habit, our practice, our preference to bring drivers in.

“We’ve brought in 23 drivers that had never been part of NASCAR before and 19 of them are still in this sport and 17 of them have won races. …Ricky and Trevor and Greg are going to be great. I’m real excited about that for next year and not less excited than I’ve been at any time in the past.”